There was one last place on my list to visit during this trip to Santa Fe....Canyon Road. A road filled with incredible art galleries of all types. A street filled with beautiful colors, bright flowers, music, shops, outrageous clothing, and interesting people. Our first stop was El Farol for lunch. We both ordered the crispy avocado sandwich with bacon and tomato and they were delicious! I also had a Rio Grande Chile Cerveza, which was crazy good! I need to look for that around here. After lunch, we headed down Canyon Road. Of course, the first thing I come across is a lovely sunflower, which I cannot pass up without taking a photo. What can I say...I am drawn to them.
Next up was this really cool gallery, which I am embarrassed to say that I do not remember the name of. *sigh* The outside had these cool angel and mermaid sculptures. There was a couple standing outside looking at the mermaid and the wife said to her husband, "I know, I know, you wish you were married to her." He didn't deny it! HAHA! There were also some very cool wolf and nature paintings inside...too bad they were all a little out of my price range.
Just a few photos from some of the art galleries below as we walked down the street.
I also love almost any kind of flower against adobe walls.
I always love the shadows of the trees on adobe walls too.
Turquoise is a very popular color on Canyon Road!
I absolutely loved this mix of colors and textures at the gallery pictured in the photograph below. The red windows, the blue fuzzy flowers and the reflections in the window look almost like a Monet painting. Beautiful.
White picket fence shot.
More turquoise doors and windows...
Wind art sculpture
Yep, more turquoise.
Santa Fe has a lot of Blue Spruces, which I love.
Some sort of cool tree with red berries and pink flowers...maybe a Pigeon Berry Tree?
I absolutely loved this scene with the bright lapis blue door and the yellow flower. Too bad there was some rather ugly electrical boxes there too. However, the more I look at this shot, the more I like it. Maybe those "ugly" boxes make the image more interesting?
A BEE!
A pretty pink flower that was almost reaching out to the sidewalk.
A place for silent worship.
More turquoise against adobe. I just love that you can see the other side of the street reflected in the window.
As we were driving back to the condo, we past a government building that had a huge patch of sunflowers. My friend let me out of the car and I took a few dozen photos and then walked home :).
Reaching for the heavens...
Well, that was it for my last afternoon in Santa Fe. It was time to go clean up for dinner. We had reservations at Restaurant Martin, where chef Martin Rios from Iron Chef fame, was waiting to prepare us an excellent meal!
Great shots Sandy, I felt like I was there!
ReplyDeleteHaha..very funny Cathy :))
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